Final Project Evaluation

As I reach the end of this project, I can see how I have made extreme progress from the time that I started. When I began I had no idea what to really expect from this course as I hadn't ever done anything like it before. As a result of this I had minimal experience with photoshop and immediately struggled with getting to grips with everything that was required. Blogger was a strange new tool that I had to use frequently that took some time to fully understand. My biggest struggle was with the work load when I first began. I would spend the majority of each day trying to keep up while I was still trying to understand Blogger and photoshop. Due to the work load it allowed me to learn how to use the programmes that were required and as the project continued I began to feel comfortable with the work that was needed to be done. 

When photographing, my initial thoughts towards the picture was just to capture what I wanted. The work that has been put into formal elements has allowed me to approach my images in a more thoughtful way, considering composition and other elements. As the year progressed the quality of my images became more consistent and was able to be at a level that I was happy with. Due to the increasing consistency within my work, I was able to take more pictures with more variation amongst each image. Out of all of the topics that we looked at, my favourite were tone and Robert Mapplethorpe. This is largely because the topics are fairly open and I can experiment with the composition and state of the images in interesting ways.

As I progressed through the year I came across a few problems that I needed to solve. My first problems were with the quality and quantity of the images that I was taking. To fix this I began to focus on the subject that I was photographing for and give myself a rough idea of what I should include within my images. I also had problems with the composition of my images. This was fixed by the focus on Robert Mapplethorpe, as it allowed me to seriously consider the different ways that I could compose my pictures. As we finished the formal elements, the work load began to slow down slightly. This extra time allowed me to focus on the quality of my work and i was able to devote more time to individual subjects.